Along with 15 animators, musicians, and screenwriters, Walt Disney flew to South America as part of a US-government-directed effort to promote the “Good Neighbor” policy during World War II. In addition to The Three Caballeros, this trip produced propaganda films such as The Grain that Built a Hemisphere. The 1971 Chilean book by scholars Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, Para leer al Pato Donald (How to Read Donald Duck), formerly banned in Chile and threatened by legal action by Disney in the US, provides a structural analysis denouncing the ways in which Disneys were used to justify and promote US cultural imperialism. Curators Lerner and Ortiz-Torres intend to show that Disney, like any other cultural force in Latin America, has been reinterpreted, syncretized, and subverted by artists.

Wednesdays, Planning for October 22 March to Stop Police Brutality and the Repression and Criminalization of a Generation. 7-8:30p 2515 West 7th St, LA 90057. We welcome any creative contributions such as poetry, music, spoken word, art etc. Please contact us and give us enough time to review, the sooner the better, thank you. As a coalition we welcome various perspectives around this issue to work towards healing, dignity and justice for all stolen lives.

DACA Renewal Efforts: Legal Clinics (until Oct. 5) 145,000 whose current DACA work authorization expires by Mar 5, 2018 have to apply to renew by Oct 5 to not be at risk of deportation. If you qualify for renewal there are clinics that can help you. The calendar is organized by state. If you know of additional pro bono services or clinics e-mail Susie Haslett at Susie@fwd.us. https://www.informedimmigrant.com/daca-renewal-efforts-legal-clinics/ DACA renewal scholarship – Get $495 so you can renew your DACA on time. http://lc4daca.org/

The Great Wall of Los Angeles: Judith Baca’s Experimentations in Collaboration and Concrete, Sat, Oct 14 – Dec 16, Main Gallery, CSUN Art Galleries, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge 91330. Free. Surveys the nearly fifty-year career of CSUN alumna Judith F. Baca, LA’s premiere muralist, educator, and community activist. It highlights the collaborative processes and aesthetic innovations central to Baca’s The Great Wall of Los Angeles (begun in 1976), a 2,754 foot-long mural that runs along the concrete wall of the Tujunga Flood Control Channel. Featuring recent works by Baca, including her 8 x 24 foot portable mural Uprising of the Mujeres (1979), and materials related to Baca’s most recent work, the expansion of The Great Wall. Reception: Oct. 14. http://www.csun.edu/mike-curb-arts-media-communication/art-galleries/events/great-wall-los-angeles-judith-f-baca%E2%80%99s

EPFC On the Air: KZUT 99.1 FM. Optical Track on air Tues 8–10p, archived at dublab.com; weekly show presented by members of Echo Park Film Center Co-­op, artists who collectively staff EPFC as volunteers.

To mobilize tenants in a city as diverse and geographically expansive as Los Angeles, L.A. Tenants Union is establishing local tenant unions. Locals link neighborhood struggles to movement for housing justice in LA.

SlutWalk LA Hosted by CODEPINK: Women For Peace, 10a, 1st & Hill, rally til 2p, Pershing Square, DTLA. As the war on women persists, CODEPINK will be marching for equality & empowerment at this year’s SlutWalk in downtown Los Angeles! We are rising together to fight sexual violence, rape culture, and slut- & body-shaming, and celebrate self-expression. This will be a safe space for all races, ethnicities, sexual expressions & gender identities. Be sure to dress up (or down!) in your best pink. Meet in front of the Biltmore Hotel at the corner of 5th & S. Grand, then head to Pershing Sq. http://www.codepink.org/slutwalk_lataylor@codepink.org

Mariscos King Fish #2, 3077 Baldwin Park Blvd, Baldwin Park 91706. Join us in solidarity with our beloved México and Puerto Rico. Mariachis and local groups will be donating their time in musical presentations to raise money for disaster aid. 100% of the money from raffle purchases and your donations will go directly to people in need and will be accounted for on video and with receipts. No third party organizations will be used that might use the money for other purposes. Space is limited so please plan to remain no more than 2 hours. Unable to attend? Make a donation through PayPal at jaranita2000@gmail.com or Venmo at @Pat-Fernandez. Or stop by and drop off your cash donation at the door.

Bake Sale and Bands to save arts educ in LA public schools, 1–4p, The Smell, 247 S. Main St. LA 9001. sponsors: Artists Political Action Network, Save Music in Chinatown, and Arts for LA. Karen Louis (Dep Dir, Arts for LA) and Martin Wong (Save Music in Chinatown) will talk about retaining arts programs in schools, then inaugural APAN bake sale, pop-funk performance by Money Mark (Beastie Boys, Sean Lennon) and arts & crafts postcard write-in to your rep to support funding for arts in schools. family-friendly: bring the kids! http://www.facebook.com/events/1549665148405145

Medicare For All March, 2-5p, Vermont/Sunset station, 1500 N Vermont Av, LA 90027. We demand SB 562! We demand Medicare for All! We demand our elected officials support both! Single payer healthcare has become a litmus test for politicians! For-profit insurance is costing millions of lives and billions of dollars. Hosted by LA for Bernie Sanders and 4 others

Community Forum: Gentrification and Immigrant Rights, 3-6p, Mariachi Plaza, 1817 E 1st St, LA. Panels: 1. Mariachi Rent strikers and other Tenant Union members that have won their fight against displacement and Gentrification. 2. Short class with LA Tenants Union, Union de Vecinos members about your rights as a tenant to stay and fight gentrification. 3. Meet activists and leaders from Eastside organizations fighting a grassroots campaign vs. gentrification/displacement. https://www.facebook.com/events/137151186903168/

Committee for Racial Justice rescheduled to Oct 8.

The Value Form & Commodity Fetishism, 6:15-8:00 p, Art Share, 801 E 4th Pl (Arts District), LÁ. (Free parking in lot across the street on Hewitt St. by the Aztec calendar.) Kevin Anderson, UCSB Prof, author of Marx at the Margins and Nick Takeyama, student activist will speak on value theory, commodity fetishism and dehumanization, and the alternative to capitalism in Marx’s Capital. West Coast Chapter, International Marxist-Humanist Organization. arise@internationalmarxisthumanist.org

Fierce at Four Foot Two – Terra Jolé, 8 p, Last Bookstore, 453 S Spring St, LA 90013. Star and exec producer of Lifetime TV series Little Women: LA discusses new memoir Fierce at Four Foot Two. Get a behind the scenes look at Terra’s life and what it takes to make it as a little person in Hollywood. Limited seating. Lastbookstorela.com

Wed 4

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Volunteer training for Many Winters Gathering of the Elders, 7:30-9p, Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA NOT downtown LA. For details contact <gatheringofelders92@gmail.com>

Beach Curfew Public Hearing, 6pm Westminster Elementary School, 1010 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA 90291. The City is processing a Coastal Development Permit (CDP) for the Beach Curfew law. This law is used to criminalize unhoused people. LA has wrongly enforced it for many years. One key issue is that any substantial California beach closure – removing coastal access – requires a CDP.

Schools LA Students Deserve Citywide General Assembly, 4:15-6:30p, St. Marks Lutheran Church, 3651 S. Vermont Ave. [across from USC]. Join students, parents and teachers from school chapters all around Los Angeles! End random searches and policing in schools, win funding for Community Schools, and love and support undocumented / Black / Muslim / queer youth. lastudentsdeserve@gmail.com

EPFC Cinema–Open Screen, 8p, 1200 N. Alvarado, LA 90026. Share your film with the feisty EPFC audience! New work, old work, works in progress, every genre, every style! Sign up for up to 10 min, one film per filmmaker. First come, first screened. DVD, Quicktime, VHS, mini­ DV, DV-­CAM, Super 8, Standard 8mm, 16mm. 213-484-8846 http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org

March Against Extinction – 5th Annual March for Elephants, 11a-2p, La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Blvd, LA 90036, Demand an end to the Ivory trade and worldwide killing of Wildlife. Meet atTar Pits at 11a march to S. African Embassy (symbolic, Embassy is closed on weekend) then return for speakers and art for kids. (1.36 miles bring water). 11:00 a.m. 1-1:45p Rally for the Animals http://www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual-march-for-elephants-los-angeles-tickets-38218101370, wear red or white tops and black bottoms.

***DATE/TIME CHANGED TO SUN, OCT 8, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, LOCATION CHANGED TO Metro stop Vermont and Wilshire*** Protest Against War and Racism, 2-5p, Pershing Sq, 5th and Olive. October 6, 2017, marks the 16th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan – the longest foreign war in U.S. history. Trump’s wars and threats against Korea, Venezuela coincides with more police killings of people of color, stepped up ICE raids and deportations, and a wave of white supremacists encouraged by Trump. This is a war at home – and the antiwar movement has a duty to respond as much as it does on any other issue! International Action Center 323 306-6240, socialjusticecenterla@gmail.comhttp://www.unacpeace.orghttp://www.facebook.com/events/116650822355779/

***DATE/TIME CHANGED TO SUN, OCT 8, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, LOCATION CHANGED TO Metro stop Vermont and Wilshire*** Speakout Against U.S. War & Racism. Please come to the Street Speakout Against War and Racism at the Metro
stop on Vermont and Wilshire this Sunday October 8th at 10:30 AM, then we’ll head to the Indigenous Peoples March at 1 pm at Hollywood & Highland. October marks the 16th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan – the longest foreign war in U.S. history. For more information locally: facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/ycg7ca9d International Action Center 323 306-6240 socialjusticecenterla@gmail.com or view the UNAC web page at http://www.unacpeace.org

No Muslim Ban Ever, 12-4 p, N Main St. & E 1st St.*, LA. We will not be silent against white supremacy and Islamophobia, stand up in solidarity for all our communities in the face of discriminatory policies. Please join us for a march and rally to uplift the voices of those most impacted. Oct 10, Supreme Court hears arguments in the Muslim Ban case. The 4th and 9th Circuit Courts ruled the ban unconstitutional. This will set a major legal, political, and moral precedent for all communities. Arab, African, Muslim, and Middle Eastern communities are organized, and our allies have our backs. Sign up here if your organization interested in sponsoring the event: https://form.jotformpro.com/72614560908964 *More info on speakers, route, safety, messaging, and sponsors in the coming days: http://www.nomuslimbanever.com

Surviving Peace, 2 p, at The Other Venice Film Festival, Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice. Film challenges the viability of either a two-state or one-state solution for Israel & Palestine and offers a new way forward. Info: http://survivingpeace.com (see ad this issue)

Committee for Racial Justice presents: What’s Going On? 6-8:30p (potluck 6p) Virginia Ave Park, Thelma Terry Bldg., 2200 Virginia Av., Santa Monica 90404. Free. CRJ vision for equitable schools will be presented and campaign for equity will be launched by Black parents. There will also be an examination of what elements in recent history have contributed to the polarization of US culture. In the face of rdisruptions by alt right groups, CRJ is definitely “going on.” Organizers are grateful for the hundreds who came out to support CRJ on Sept. 10. Monthly series sponsored by CRJ, co-sponsored by Virginia Ave. Park; African American Parent, Staff, Student Support Group; and Church in Ocean Park. Info: 310-422-5431.

What Does Treason Look Like? A Zócalo/KCRW “Critical Thinking with Warren Olney” Event, 7:30p. National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, 111 N. Central Av. LA 90012. From Benedict Arnold to the McCarthy hearings to Edward Snowden, the US public and political system have wrestled with the meaning of treason. The Founding Fathers were considered traitors by the British Crown, and the newly formed US struggled with how to treat Americans who sided with King George III during the Revolution. What does it mean today to betray one’s country? UCLA legal scholar Eugene Volokh, UC Davis legal scholar Carlton F.W. Larson, and Yale Law School Assoc Dean, former FBI counterintelligence special agent Asha Rangappa sit down with Warren Olney at Zócalo to consider acts—and accusations—of national betrayal.? http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/event/

Wed 11

Democratic Club of the Conejo Valley Meeting with Sandra Fluke, 6:30-8:30p, North Ranch Center, 1400 N Westlake Blvd, Westlake Village 91362. Join Sandra Fluke for a discussion on what’s at stake for women in the Trump era, and how to take action. info: http://conejodemocrats.weebly.com

CopWatch Santa Ana General Meeting/Community Forum, 7-10p, El Centro Cultural de México, 837 N. Ross St. Santa Ana (new address) You are invited to come participate in direct-action based barrio organizing against the police state. Every 2nd wed. of the month. Professional childcare provided. Agents of the state including the Santa Ana PD and Immigration and Customs Enforcement NOT welcomed. http://ocprogressiveevents.info

Zocalo: Are College Campuses Rewriting the Rules of Sex in America? with Vanessa Grigoriadis, 7:30p. National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, 111 N. Central Av, LA 90012. US college campuses have become crucial testing grounds—and, at times, battlegrounds—as the country grapples with rapidly changing mores of sexual behavior and expression. Vanessa Grigoriadis, contributing editor at NY Times Magazine and author of Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus, explores how ideas about sexuality, as well as the written and unwritten rules, are being redrafted at institutions of higher learning. RSVP: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/event/college-campuses-rewriting-rules-sex-america/

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Many Winters Gathering of Elders, Hosted by Many Winters Gathering of Elders and Red Earth Defense, 10 a-7p, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S Gaffey St, San Pedro, California 90731. The Gathering of Elders Committee is excited to announce the revival of the annual Many Winters Gathering of the Elders this year taking place October 12th-15th, 2017. We will be hosting and welcoming Indigenous Elder’s from across Turtle Island to Tongva Territory in order for them to share their traditional teachings and medicine. Announcements will be posted here and in our new page “Many Winters Gathering of Elders”. If you’re interested in volunteering or assisting with fundraising efforts please contact us. GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/help-us-bring-the-elders-together Email: GatheringofElders92@gmail.comhttps://www.facebook.com/events/833270616827951/ See the lead article in this month’s issue of Change Links for more information.

Ojoboca: A Bright Darkness, 8p, 1200 N. Alvarado St, LA 90026. EPFC welcomes Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy from Berlin, Germany. Since 2010 they have been working together under the moniker Ojoboca. Recent work stemming from their practice of Horrorism, a simulated method of inner and outer transformation. Supported by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org

Are Housing Prices Destroying the California Dream? A Zócalo/AARP Event, Moderated by Dave Lesher, CEO and editor of CALMatters, 7:30p. National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, 111 N. Central Av, LA 90012. Housing never has been more valuable than in CA today—the average CA home is worth nearly a half-million dollars, more than two-and-a-half times the national average. But what are the hidden costs of this over-the-top home equity to California, its economy, and the aspirations of longtime residents as well as newcomers? CA Senate Pres pro Tem Kevin de León, AARP ?housing expert ?Rodney ?Harrell, Housing California ED Lisa Hershey, and UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean Gary Segura examine how our state’s housing market boom both enables and endangers the California dream. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/event/housing-prices-destroying-california-dream/

Fri 13

Many Winters Gathering of Elders, see Oct 12

Surviving Peace, the film that challenges the viability of either a two-state or one-state solution

for Israel & Palestine and offers a new way forward, opens for a run at Laemmle Royal in WLA, Town Center 5 in Encino, Playhouse 7 in Pasadena; also Claremont, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, San Francisco & NYC. info: http://survivingpeace.com (see ad this issue)

Judy Baca–Reception for The Great Wall of Los Angeles: Experiments in Collaboration and Concrete, 4-7 p, Main Gallery, CSUN Art Galleries, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, California 91330. Baca’s “Great Wall of Los Angeles” depicts crucial moments in California, from its prehistory until the 1950s, and has recently been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. She finished in 1981, having led a team of 400 people to create it; her latest project is to update it to include two more decades. See “On-going” at top of calendar.

Courage Against Racism: Black Lives Matter Fundraiser, 7:30-9:30p, McCarty Memorial Christian Church, 4101 W Adams Blvd, LA 90018. This event is hosted by White People 4 Black Lives in conjunction with the McCarty Memorial Church, VigilantLOVE and Black Lives Matter LA. The event features readings from Voices of a People’s History of the US, a companion performance to historian Howard Zinn’s legendary book. The play includes selected testimonies—speeches, letters, poems, petitions, and manifestos—of people throughout US history who struggled against slavery, racism, war, and oppression.

Still Standing, 8 p, EPFC, 1200 N. Alvarado, LA 90026. Documentary by Sierra May about a small community’s fight against Mendocino Redwood Company. The logging company is using chemicals to harvest the trees; poisoning the land, the people, and creating dead zones of highly flammable trees.

Chapman Dialogue Series: Arturo Rodriguez, Chapman University Fowler School of Law, 1 University Dr, Orange 92866. 11:30a-1p. As president of the United Farm Workers of America, Rodriguez is continuing to build the union Cesar Chavez founded into a powerful voice for farm workers by increasing its membership and pushing historic legislation on immigration reform and worker rights. Rodriguez led negotiations with the nation’s major grower associations to fashion the agricultural provisions of the bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed the US Senate in 2013. http://www.eventbrite.comhttps://www.facebook.com/events/426158737780201/

Grooverfest, 8 p, EPFC, 1200 N. Alvarado, LA 90026. Once there was a record label in Sweden called Groover. Fun times, Great artists, Amazing music; One of the Groover boys suddenly got the itch back. So he booked a ticket to LA, called some friends and asked them to come and play a show. Now all he needs is for you to show up and enjoy it with him. It’s Grooverfest!

Thu 19

Wild and Boozy Cordials Workshop., 7-8:30 p, $25. We’ll learn how to identify and use several locally available edible and medicinal plants to make cordials and infusions (you don’t have to drink to learn from this workshop), and we’ll sample some of my favorite blends while munching on some foraged treats. Cost includes pre-foraged ingredients to make your own cordials to take home (you must bring your own bottle of vodka or gin, TJ’s sells organic if you’d like). erica.smerica@gmail.comhttp://ericawohldmann.com/pay-for-classes/

Race & Space In Los Angeles IX, 8p, EPFC, 1200 N. Alvarado, LA 90026, Free. 9th installment of ongoing series focuses on community efforts to fight for greater control of neighborhoods before and in the aftermath of the 1992 civil unrest. Featuring a series of grassroots films produced by Michael Zinzun, of Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA) which linked rising poverty and unemployment with the growth of police forces and expansion of prisons. Intro and discussion by Yusef Omowale and Michele Welsing of Southern California Library, who curated. Southern California Library documents and makes accessible histories of struggles that challenge racism and other systems of oppression. http://www.socallib.org

KTown Rapid Response Training-Entrenamiento de Respuesta Rapida, 10a-1p, St Mary’s Episcopal Church, 961 S Mariposa Ave, LA 90006. The Koreatown Popular Assembly is launching a rapid response network to protect our neighborhood from ICE raids and deportations. The goal of the Koreatown Rapid Response Network is to create an ICE-free Koreatown. We are creating a rapid response network that will organize neighbors to respond to ICE raids by coming out into the streets together in numbers to disrupt ICE’s ability to terrorize our neighborhood. This training focuses on the first steps – verification and observation of raids and detentions. bilingual Spanish/English. http://www.facebook.com/events/1706378646337053/

The Hard Earth And The 51st Star, 8 p, EPFC, 1200 N. Alvarado, LA 90026. Documentaries by Sally Lawton & Ian Curry, in attendance. The Hard Earth charts the relationship of five Ukrainians and one Ukrainian American to the 2014 revolution and preceding war. In The 51st Star, a voice shouts from a cave, sounds of the cosmos radiate over a tropical paradise, and a phantasm parades down the street with a sword as issues are heard and forms are seen that represent colonialism in Puerto Rico both past and present.

Sun 22

Walk in the Wild, 10-11:30 a, with Erica Wohldmann in the Santa Monica Mountains. $20. Want to learn more about how to incorporate wild and urban foraged plants into your regular diet? In this plant identification walk we’ll discuss the traditional ethnobotanical uses, nutritional properties and medicinal qualities of native and naturalized plants and trees. Ends with a tasty light snack and herbal tea–wild style, of course. RSVP erica.smerica@gmail.com, http://ericawohldmann.com/pay-for-classes/

Oct.22nd March to Stop Police Brutality- Los Angeles, 2-6p, gather at noon at LA Community Action Network, 838 E 6th St, LA 90021. March at 2pm to Mariachi Plaza with a stop in front of the Metropolitan Immigration Detention Center. Rally and performances to follow. Vigil at sunset. PERMIT PENDING as of 9/19/17 More details TBA. Support is welcome in the planning and production of the march. See Weds in On-going Events. october22.la@gmail.comhttp://www.facebook.com/events/1898849893768880/http://www.october22.org/

LAUSD Board of Education will discuss random search policy that mandates schools routinely and “randomly” search students without any grounds; 1p, 333 S. Beaudry Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90017. Students Deserve, Youth Justice Coalition, Black Lives Matter, UTLA, ACLU, Public Counsel, and others are united in opposing this harmful policy and supporting young people speaking out against it. Please attend to support young people speaking truth to power. Go online right now and sign the ACLU petition at https://action.aclu.org/secure/students-not-suspects and attend the meeting to show your support.

Is War with North Korea Inevitable? A Zócalo/UCLA Event, Moderated by Jean H. Lee, journalist and former AP Pyongyang Bureau Chief, 7:30p. National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, 111 N Central Ave, LA 90012. North Korea test-fires intercontinental missiles that may be able to reach the U.S. West Coast. Kim Jong-un threatens Guam, and conducts a nuclear test of what his country claims is a hydrogen bomb. A dysfunctional and internationally unpopular White House answers North Korean provocations with threats of “unprecedented fire and fury.” How close is the world to a calamity on the Korean peninsula? UCLA Korea historian John Duncan, senior advisor at the nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation collaborative N Square Paul Carroll, cultural researcher Suk-Young Kim, and CEO of Liberty in North Korea Hannah Song visit Zócalo to discuss the looming threat, and potential aftermath, of a renewed Korean war. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/event/war-north-korea-inevitable/

Screening: No Más Bebés, 7:30p, free. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. LA 90024. This documentary tells the story of Mexican immigrant mothers who were forcibly or unknowingly sterilized while giving birth at the LA County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 1970s. Represented by a young Chicana lawyer, the mothers stood up to injustice by suing the county, state, and US government. (2015, dir. Renee Tajima-Peña, 79 min.) Q&A with director Renee Tajima-Peña follows. This program is in conjunction with a Hammer Forum on forced sterilization on October 29.

Wed 25

Red October Centennial LA, 5p, Griffith Park, 4730 Crystal Springs Dr, LA 90027. 100 years ago on this day, the workers of Petrograd rose up in a second Revolution that year against the Tsar, to end the Russian empire’s participation in World War I, feed the people and share the land to poor peasants, successfully overthrowing the regime and establishing a society founded on the principle of putting the lives of workers above that of profit. A century later, we come together once more against a stronger enemy than the Tsar, the US government and rulers and their vast military empire. “We call upon all communists, socialists, anarchists, workers, people of good conscience to fight with us from this day forward. This is a struggle for our very lives.” https://www.facebook.com/events/1880414188866157/

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM MEET UP, 7pm, Beyond Baroquen 681 Venice Blvd, free admission – Gerry Fialka probes news reporting and the exemplary George Seldes. Journalist Nat Hentoff said, “Seldes took what should be the most honorable term in journalism – muckraking – and made it work again. A lot of journalists did more, took risks, because Seldes was the model.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_SeldesWith rare film clips and fiery discussion. More info- Gerry Fialka: pfsuzy@aol.com, 310 306 7330, http://laughtears.com/

Hammer Forum – Forced Sterilization: Then and Now, 3p, free. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. LA 90024. Forced sterilization of women who are poor and/or of color, have mental health problems, or are incarcerated was once commonplace in CA, and nationwide as well as in Puerto Rico. While now legally banned, forced sterilization and other means of controlling reproductive rights continue to insinuate themselves into public policy. Filmmaker and historian Virginia Espino, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice ED Laura Jimenez, and Prof.Alexandra Minna Stern, director of the University of Michigan Sterilization and Social Justice Lab, discuss the historical and contemporary consequences of this practice. Moderated by UC Santa Barbara Prof. Miroslava Chavez-Garcia. This program is in conjunction with a screening of No Más Bebés on October 24

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Los Angeles: DBSA Support group, 6:30-9:30p, 127 S. San Vicente, LA 90036. This group is for those who have been diagnosed with a mood disorder and are seeking local community support. Share your experience/insight, and listen/learn with compassion. We are all coping and using personal strategies that we can share and improve upon as we each move forward. We look forward to forming a friendly and safe peer-led environment for inclusion, diversity, and community education to thrive. This is a free peer support group. RSVPs are appreciated, but not required.